[lbo-talk] CounterPunch 8/25/07: "The Great Financial Crisis...

[Jeffrey Fisher]

On 8/26/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/26/07, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> > I believe one person does all the editing and mark-up.
>
> It's the work of Jeff St. Clair alone, as far as I know.  He gets
> about TEN articles online EVERY WEEKDAY.  So, he has only about 48
> minutes per article for editing, proofreading, and HTML-formatting
> even if he works eight hours per day on CounterPunch and spends all
> eight hours on nothing but those three tasks, but he also has to read
> new submissions and do other things, too, so he probably has less than
> 30 minutes for each article.  Give Jeff a break.
> --
> Yoshie

Agreed, that's an impossible amount of work. But it does go to Doug's point
about any new publication: you really do want the money to (have the staff
to) edit properly. It's not about how Jeff St. Clair is falling down on the
job so much as that he needs support. IMO.

I would be a teency bit surprised if CounterPunch couldn't get a good
editorial intern or two, though. Just even having a second set of eyes is
often helpful, especially when you're otherwise doing everything on the run,
so to speak.

j